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In poll season, 2 BJP ministers, 6 legislators cross over to Arunachal’s NPP

Arunachal Pradesh goes to polls on April 11 to elect 2 Lok Sabha MPs and 60 new members to the state assembly.

Updated on Mar 19, 2019, 11:56 PM IST

Congress releases third list of 18 candidates for Lok Sabha elections

Among the third list of candidates declared by the Congress after a meeting of the party’s central election committee are five from Assam, two from Meghalaya, one from Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim and Nagaland each, besides eight from Telangana.

Updated on Mar 16, 2019, 2:01 AM IST

Former Union minister Agatha K Sangma to be NPP candidate for Tura Lok Sabha seat

NPP national president and Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma chaired the meeting of the central election committee of the party in Delhi which was attended by party leaders from various states in the NE region.

Updated on Mar 15, 2019, 8:52 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Kerala, West Bengal prefer older lawmakers

The analysis means it is harder for younger candidates to break into electoral politics in states like Kerala and West Bengal that tend to vote in older members of Parliament and assemblies than the rest of India.

Updated on Mar 15, 2019, 1:28 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJP seals ‘grand alliance’ with parties in northeast

On Tuesday, BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav announced the formation of an BJP ‘grand alliance’ in the northeast and claimed that the alliance would win at least 22 of the 25 seats from the region.

Updated on Mar 13, 2019, 12:54 PM IST

Meghalaya opposition boycotts Governor’s address over his anti-Kashmiri tweet

Former Meghalaya chief minister of Meghalaya Mukul Sangma of Congress addresses a press conference.

Published on Mar 8, 2019, 10:52 PM IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Here is all you need to know about Meghalaya

While the anger over the Citizenship Bill was largely directed against the BJP and the Centre, the state government faces

Updated on Mar 11, 2019, 12:02 PM IST

Second body retrieved from Meghalaya coal mine; 5 spotted so far

Rescue workers from NDRF and Indian Navy retrieved a second body on Wednesday from the main shaft of the flooded coal mine at Khloo Ryngksan in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district, officials said.

Updated on Feb 27, 2019, 4:49 PM IST

Meghalaya mining disaster: One more body spotted by navy vehicle

16 miners have been trapped in the illegally operated coal mine since tragedy struck on December 13, last year.

Published on Feb 26, 2019, 12:30 AM IST

Meghalaya mining tragedy: Decomposed body parts detected by Navy ROV

In all 1,40,76,000 litres of water were pumped out by teams from Coal India, Kirloskar and KSB on Sunday, the spokesperson informed while adding that the NDRF were rendering all assistance to the rescue teams on site.

Updated on Feb 25, 2019, 7:58 AM IST

After Pulwama, be tough with Pakistan. Be smart internally with Kashmir

The Central Reserve Police Force Wives Association pay homage to the martyrs of the Pulwama terror attack on February 14, 2019, Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, February 16, 2019

Published on Feb 22, 2019, 8:02 PM IST

‘Boycott Kashmiris’: Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy’s tweet sparks row, Omar Abdullah has a question

Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy has evoked fresh controversy with his tweet backing a call to boycott all Kashmiris in the wake of Pulwama terror attack.

Updated on Feb 19, 2019, 4:53 PM IST

Supreme Court seeks details from Meghalaya on illegal mines operating there

Meghalaya has nearly 640 million tonnes of coal reserves.

Published on Feb 8, 2019, 11:14 PM IST

Budget: 21% increase in allocation to north-east evokes mixed reaction

Activists of All Assam Students Union (AASU) along with 30 indigenous organizations take out a torch light procession to protest against the Citizenship Amendment bill in Guwahati.

Updated on Feb 2, 2019, 1:01 PM IST

Meghalaya MLA threatens to quit BJP over citizenship bill

Addressing a rally in Shillong, the BJP MLA said that he has submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the matter, but was yet to get a response.

Updated on Feb 1, 2019, 11:03 AM IST

BJP, NDA will suffer if Citizenship Bill is passed, says JD(U)

JD(U) general secretary KC Tyagi has said that the BJP and the NDA alliance will suffer if the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB), which is facing stiff opposition in the Northeast, is passed in Rajya Sabha.

Updated on Jan 28, 2019, 7:26 PM IST

Supreme Court asks govt to continue rescue operations for trapped Meghalaya miners

A bench headed by Justice AK Sikri asked the governments to keep looking for the miners, days after Indian navy’s divers detected the body of a second miner.

Updated on Jan 28, 2019, 6:44 PM IST

Navy detects another body inside Meghalaya’s flooded coal mine

Naval divers detected the body of another miner early this morning at a depth of 280 feet inside a rat-hole in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district where over a dozen miners remain trapped since December 13.

Updated on Jan 26, 2019, 11:13 PM IST

Body recovered from Meghalaya mine identified by wife

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Indian Naval personnel carry a body of a trapped miner during a joint operation in Ksan area of East Jaintia Hills.

Published on Jan 25, 2019, 8:12 PM IST

Massive sound: Empowering dissent through music

Samara Chopra and Taru Dalmia

Updated on Jan 26, 2019, 1:33 PM IST

Review: Shillong Times by Nilanjan P Choudhury

View of Shillong in the early 1990s.

Published on Jan 25, 2019, 5:45 PM IST

First body pulled out of Meghalaya mine, 42 days after 15 workers got stuck

Rescuers manage to pull out the remains of a dead body which was spotted on January 16.

Updated on Jan 24, 2019, 5:08 PM IST

Amid citizenship bill anger, govt clears N-E sops

Image for representation.

Published on Jan 24, 2019, 7:05 AM IST

Cabinet approves increase in Autonomous Councils’ powers in Sixth Schedule areas in North east

The NDA government on Wednesday decided to grant more power and funds to 10 autonomous councils in the region.

Published on Jan 23, 2019, 9:09 PM IST

Will try to pull out Meghalaya miner’s body today: State official

Officials in Meghalaya will make a fresh attempt on Tuesday to pull out the decomposing body of one of the miners trapped in an illegal coal mine in the state’s East Jaintia Hills district since December last year after the Indian Navy suspended its operations to retrieve it.

Published on Jan 22, 2019, 10:15 AM IST

Trapped Meghalaya miners may be dead, Supreme Court informed

Fifteen miners got trapped in a rat-hole mine, located on a hillock fully covered with trees in East Jaintia Hills district, when water from the nearby Lytein river gushed into it on December 13.

Updated on Jan 21, 2019, 11:41 PM IST

Navy abandons efforts to pull out decomposed body of Meghalaya miner

The Indian Navy abandoned all efforts on Sunday to pull out the decomposed body of a miner that it spotted four days ago .

Updated on Jan 20, 2019, 11:56 PM IST

Families want miner’s body in Meghalaya, but retrieval is risky

Kuti Miyan, one of the missing miners in Meghalaya. His brother Aminul Uddin, who worked at the same coal mine escaped the disaster when he went home on December 7 to vote in Assam’s Panchayat elections.

Updated on Jan 19, 2019, 5:28 PM IST

Meghalaya miners: Want a decent burial, say families as bodies pulled out of mine ‘fall apart’

East Jaintia Hills: Naval divers look at the captured pictures of one of the 15 miners trapped in illegal rat mines since Dec. 13, in Ksan area of East Jaintia Hills, in Thursday.

Updated on Jan 18, 2019, 10:00 AM IST

Body spotted in Meghalaya mine, retrieval unclear

A joint rescue operation involving nearly 200 personnel from the NDRF, Indian Navy as well state agencies, has been on at a “rat-hole” mine at Khloo Ryngksan in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district for the past one month.

Published on Jan 17, 2019, 10:46 PM IST

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